UMPIRE Synonyms

• (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play

• someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

• an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case

• be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

• evaluate professionally a colleague's work

• a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

• an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

• determine the result of (a competition)

• form a critical opinion of

• judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

• pronounce judgment on

• put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

• a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

• act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

• a long wooden bench with a back

• settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground

• bring to an end; settle conclusively

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• take up residence and become established

• come to terms

• go under

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet

• establish or develop as a residence

• come to rest

• arrange or fix in the desired order

• accept despite lack of complete satisfaction

• end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement

• dispose of; make a financial settlement

• become clear by the sinking of particles

• cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

• sink down or precipitate

• fix firmly

• get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury

• make final; put the last touches on; put into final form

• form a community

• come as if by falling

• someone with the power to settle matters at will

• someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

• an official at a baseball game